A commonly recommended way to reduce inheritance tax (IHT) is to make lifetime gifts. In simple terms, if you survive for seven years after the gift is given, it’s usually excluded from your estate ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is floating an extreme new proposal to change the state’s estate tax — a move that would hurt middle-class New Yorkers and their loved ones. The socialist mayor wants to ...

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In photographer Catherine Opie’s intimate series of images from inside Elizabeth Taylor’s home, one holds unexpected wisdom for jewelry collectors. A stack of boxes —mostly, it appears, for necklaces ...

A Massachusetts woman gained two long-lost sisters through a DNA test — then tried to net a fortune when she sued them a month later over a malpractice settlement involving their dad. Carmen Thomas, ...

BREMERTON, Wash. — The Navy officially has a new “backbone” of its submarine fleet that is bigger, faster, quieter, and has more endurance and firepower than the Vietnam War-era design it passed by in ...

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